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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2006
Francois Marquis, Oron-le-Chatel, CH;
Francois Marquis, Oron-le-Chatel, CH;
Phonak AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
There is provided a method for adjusting a system for providing hearing assistance to a user (), the system comprising a microphone arrangement () for capturing audio signals, a transmission unit () for transmitting the audio signals via a wireless link () to a receiver unit () worn by the user, a gain control unit () located in the receiver unit for setting the gain applied to the audio signals, and means () worn at or in a user's ear () for stimulating the hearing of the user according to the audio signals from the receiver unit (), said method comprising: generating test audio signals, transmitting said test audio signals at a pre-defined level from the transmission unit via the wireless link to the receiver unit and stimulating the user's hearing with said test audio signals via said stimulating means; simultaneously transmitting gain control commands from the transmission unit to the gain control unit in order to selectively change the gain set by the gain control unit; repeating these steps until an optimum value of the gain set by the gain control unit has been determined; and transmitting a store command from the transmission unit to the receiver unit in order to store that determined optimum value of the gain.